Case 2.

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1. Coordinates disaster response when the President declares a national
disaster. This case illustrates the power and the utility of automated report
generation for a large (and, at the time of natural disaster, somewhat chaotic)
organization such as FEMA
2. Huge amounts of paperwork when a natural disaster occurs. Sifting through
this paperwork is very cumbersome and labor-intensive. Two floods occur at
once: flood over the land and a flood of paperwork.
3. The solution was to implement a system based on WebFOCUS software
from Information Builders. As a result, FEMA staff can now browse
insurance data posted on NFIP's BureauNet intranet site, select just the
information they want to see, and get an onscreen report or download the
data as a spreadsheet. This also allows them to create custom reports without
having to go through their IT provider, CSC. The first major test of this
system was Tropical Storm Allison, and BureauNet worked very well. It also
has been able to scale up to handle increased demand.
Case 2.6
1. The first was data located in many systems, some of which were difficult to
access. Quality of the data was in doubt, bringing concerns that results may
not be valid. Finally, even with data aggregated and scrubbed, the process of
using that data for analysis was very time consuming.
2. Tableau system that could be used to store, analyze, and present data for
decision making. Because the system was software as a service, SaaS, it
required very little in up-front investment. After using the system, the
company is able to access and utilize data in ways that it was never able to in
the past. They are now able to generate reports as well as answer customer
questions with ease.
Case 2.7
1. They incorporated Tableau and Teknion to assist with visualizing and
understanding their merchandising activities, involving the complete supply
chain from manufacture to end customer.
2. Challenge: The Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Division needed more
visibility into their data so they could run more profitably. They selected
Microsoft as the baseline platform but was not sufficient for the task.
Solution: Tableau and Teknion together provided real-time reporting and
dashboard capabilities that provided the necessary visualization functionality to
meet and exceed the Cowboys' requirements.
Result: Now, for the first time, the Dallas Cowboys are able to monitor their
complete merchandising activities from manufacture to end customer and see not
only what is happening across the life cycle, but drill down even further into why it
is happening.
Case 2.8
1. Typically dealing with a very large amount of information that comes from a
wide variety of sources. Additionally, these companies tend to be working
with very large budgets, and the ability to identify areas of possible savings
can result in large increases to revenue.
2. The company was concerned about the diversity and disparity of the
information that it was using to make decisions. By centralizing information,
it was possible for them to create "one version of the truth" and create
dashboards and reports that showed reliable information that could be used
for decision making.
3. Challenge: The company's primary challenge was the variety and diversity
in the data that it needed to aggregate.
Solution: The company selected a SAS Visual Analytics system to manage
and report the data.
Result: After implementing the system, the company has been able to deliver
quality information in the form of reports much faster and at a lower cost.